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Death penalty wasn’t always so slow

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Thursday February 20, 2014 5:16 AM

The Dispatch has run articles and letters recently about the
death-penalty process. Having read these, the issue was on my mind when I noted in the “Daily
Almanac” column this past weekend in the Nation and World section that an attempt was made to
assassinate President-elect Franklin Roosevelt in Miami on Feb. 15, 1933. The gunman missed and
killed Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who was with Roosevelt. The article ended by saying that the
gunman was executed a little more than four weeks later.

In contrast to this, the very next day it mentioned the 26th anniversary of a shooting rampage
by a Sunnyvale, Calif., man, who was obsessed with a co-worker and killed seven people in his
office. The entry ended by saying he is still on Death Row.

I know this is a controversial issue, but my, how times have changed. I would like to see the
process sped up, especially when there are multiple witnesses.